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AT&T yesterday announced that it wants to buy T-Mobile. If it's approved, the merger will take a year or two. And by then we'll be seeing awesome new phones arrive in the marketplacepotential iPhone 6s, Nokia Windows phones, or phones based on Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El chipset.

But what if the two companies merged today? With limited space on store shelves and in advertisements, the merged carrier would have to cherrypick the best phones for its lineup. Fortunately, the two carriers can fill each others' gaps: AT&T brings the flagship iPhone 4, the unique phone/laptop combo, the Motorola Atrix, and the iPad 2, while T-Mobile can bring a wider array of Android phones than AT&T currently offers. There are plenty of opportunities with simple phones, too.

Check out the slideshow to see our picks for the top 10 phones for the über-carrier, if the merger went through today.

PCMag.com's lead mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, has reviewed hundreds of smartphones, tablets and other gadgets in more than 9 years with PCMag. He's the head of our Fastest Mobile Networks project, one of the hosts of the daily PCMag Live Web show and speaks frequently in mass media on cell-phone-related issues. His commentary has appeared on ABC, the BBC, the CBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and in newspapers from San Antonio, Texas to Edmonton, Alberta.
Segan is also a multiple award-winning travel writer, having contributed...
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